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Hudson Yards in NYC makes sense on paper for that size/density of a city, yet it's a financial failure. Something like this building in OKC makes zero sense to
by coldcode 3y ago
Hudson Yards in NYC makes sense on paper for that size/density of a city, yet it's a financial failure. Something like this building in OKC makes zero sense to even start.
- InitialLastName 3y agoEven Hudson Yards only made sense because they could use zoning shenanigans (drawing lines to put it in the same district as Central Park and a very poor area of Harlem [0]) to get state funding for it as an "economically troubled area". [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-12/the-visa-program-that-helped-pay-for-hudson-yards https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-12/the-visa-...
- CapitalistCartr 3y agoAny building above about seventy some floors gets taller by ego, not financial value.